The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-28
MRS. CLEVELAND MoBBEp.
An Exhibition of Vulgar Curiosity AL
most Beyond Belief.

most Beyond Belief
A correspondent of the Philadelphia Press,
who was passenger on the sound steamer
Pilgrim at the same time with Mrs. Cleve-
land, describes as follows some of the scenes
he Witnessed
l had seen Mrs Cleveland and had no par
ticular desire to see her again, although
will admit she is well worth seeing. But
as to venturing into that mass of perspiring
and painting humanity, would not have
rlsked it in order to catch glimpse OF
Venus herself. And | had seriously begun
10 think of beating q retreat to some other
part of the boat when l found to my amaze
ment that retreat was cut Off. Back
OF me, the passage ways into the
cabin or rather the gallery Of the
cabin through which it was necessary to
pass i'll order to get down to the main
saloon, was one mass of people all coming
my way On they came, the typical tour
lst on his travels, followed by his women
kind. If the father of tbe family, with his
hat over his eyes, a bag i'll his hand, his
linen buster creased with the days travel,
was anxious to get to his cabin and have a
wash before attacking Mrs. Cleveland, the
daughters or the wife would not allow 1t;
the waiter had told them that Mrs. Cleve-
land was on board, and Mrs. Cleveland
must be inspected if they got not mouth
full to eat or a wink of sleep that night
The scene became really comic. | sat
hemmed in, the incoming tide almost roll
ing over me, and now and then | really had
to stand up in, order to let people know that
was there and not to be trampled on.
Would any one believe that no less than
five women actually went up to the state
room door and pushed topen with the in
tention of getting look at Mrs. Cleveland
and then went gigglingly and exultingly
back to their friends with the account of
their exploit! Two attacking parties were
made up right in my neighborhood, and |
was forced to overhear both the preparations
and the results.
II showed the door and l says: Excuse
me, is this Mrs Browns stateroomp and
then backed out as quick as possible, for
had real good look at her. She is as pretty
as picture" This came from a sharp
faced Yankee woman, who had resolved to
do or die. At the fifth attack the lattice
door was closed and locked. The next at
lacking party discovered this, and then it
was rumored that Mrs. Cleveland had gone
to dinner. 1t showed great strategic skill
upon Gen. Greelys part that he actually
got his wife and Mrs. Cleveland down to the
diningroom before the hungry crowd on
the upper deck had discovered the
move. There is an inside door to the large
staterooms on the Pilgrim connected with
the saloon and the Greedy party had gone
down without coming out on deck. The
news that there had been flank movement
spread like wildfire, and the rush for that
dining was something to be remem-
bered. In MARTIN Chuzzlewit" Dickens
describes the effect of the dinner bell upon
the American boarder. Dickens ought to
have seen the Pilgrims passengers go to the
dining-room in Mrs. Cleveland's wake
They couldn't rush because of the throng,
but they pushed with all their might, and
within five minutes after the news had
spread that Mrs Cleveland was at her soup
there were 500 people clamoring for admis-
sion to the dining-room.
Walters were stationed at the gangway
to see that people did not go down faster
than there was room for them, and they
had hard time of it that night. General
Greedy and his party were placed at the
other end of the dining-room. The crowd
by pushing hard, managed to push a few
of the leaders into the door of the dining
room, so that those leaders could see Mrs
Cleveland in the distance and pass back a
description of what was going on. Each
stage of the dinner was thus de-
scribed in detail, and the informa-
ton was passed along for the delectation
of the 500 who could see nothing
Mrs. Cleveland must have eaten a very
good dinner that night, for when thought
that the whole excitement must have died
away, and went down at $50 to get some
dinner, the throng was still there waiting.
Hundreds had distrl buted themselves on the
neighboring lounges, leaving instructions
with the negro walters to call them when
Mrs. Cleveland appeared and it is to the
credit of the walters that they did nothing
of the kind, but allowed the distinguished
party to get up the gangway and escape be-
fore the devoted 500 knew what had hap
pened.